Preferences Dialog

The preferences dialog can be opened through Menu → Edit → Preferences

Display

Display preferences

Fullscreen

Fullscreen preferences

Ctrl-T

Slideshow

Slideshow preferences

Control

Control preferences

Behaviour

Behaviour preferences

Advanced options

Don't use Thunar to show the file-properties dialog

By default, Ristretto will ask thunar to pop-up the file-properties dialog. This way, you'll have the advantage of all of thunar's plugins that extend it's file-properties dialog beyond it's native functionality. Aswell as a consistent look-and-feel throughout the xfce desktop.

However, there are some cases where you want Ristretto not to use Thunar, but go for the build-in dialog all the times. This can be the case when you have Thunar installed, but don't use it. Launching the file-properties dialog from Ristretto will then cause Thunar to be launched, making it a pretty expensive dialog.

Being a somewhat advanced feature, this option is not exposed through the preferences-dialog, and can only be enabled through the xfconf command-line utility xfconf-query. This can be done as followed: